REPORT: DJ Moore in trouble with the law

[SmokinwithWilly]

21 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

This is what 77 looks like for miles........ cone on your left and wall on your right. "Work Zone"

 

This absolutely wild how extreme people are responding in this thread.

This is pretty much what it looked like when I got hit, again minimal, just on a regular street though. 

Personally, I probably would have been dismissive of this before that. After, I'm not. As someone who does a lot of stop and go work, it's a pain in the butt to set up cones and a sign every time you get out of the truck and pick it all back up when you're finished. For a highway department, it makes sense to leave miles of them up just because of the manpower and cost it would require to take it down and set it back up every time someone moved equipment up and down the highway. I think they should complete a section and move on and not leave miles of this but it's not my call. 

I think saying that he didn't endanger anyone is being narrow minded. I'm not saying he should be locked up in prison for 10 years either. Stupid thing to do by a young adult who probably doesn't understand what can happen to himself or other people at that speed. I didn't when I was his age. My only real frustration is the dismissive attitude. I don't think my views are extreme, just an opinion from a guy that occasionally works on the opposite side of the barriers.

[Palmetto]

Come on man  you haven't even played your first game yet

[Khyber53]

Kids do stupid things. Luckily no one got hurt or killed. I guess he'll be Uber-ing it to practice and games for a while. No judge is going to back that down to where you keep your license.

 

[steven8989]

6 hours ago, Captroop said:

I can't believe he played after this! His ass shoulda been sat. His ass should still be sat.

These kids count on their talent and status to get them off the hook when they're reckless and stupid, and that's something the Panthers culture should be against. I hope he gets suspended. I hope he gets fined. I almost hope he gets jail time.

I've seen a person with all the talent in the world throw it all away because he thought he was untouchable. He was king poo of big dick mountain. And he had an entire school of enablers (including coaches and teachers) who looked the other way at his behavior because they didn't want to put his future at risk. Lot of good that did him. Now the former number 2 dual-threat QB in the nation, and MVP of the state championship is an assistant high school football coach because his behavior finally caught up with him.

I want the best for DJ. I want him to have a great career. I want him to be successful as a Panther, and in life.

So I hope they throw the book at him.

Yeah and Cam got sat for a little bit because he didn't wear a tie or so they say. Thanks Rivera!

[NanuqoftheNorth]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I would rather it not have happened too, but on the list of possible bad decisions of a 21 year old guy freshly into millions of dollars, this is safely within the minor issue category.

Bobby Phills says hi.

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Phills died while traveling on Tyvola Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, after driving at a high rate of speed with then-teammate David Wesley. His Porsche veered into oncoming traffic and crashed into two other vehicles. Both other drivers survived, while Phills died on the scene. Wesley was later convicted of reckless driving for his part in the incident.

"That morning, I didn't get to tell Bobby goodbye," Kendall Phills, Bobby's wife, said. "He just left, and I didn't hug him, I didn't tell him that I loved him. It was just a typical day.

 

In the words of David Wesley...

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“As athletes and even as people, we sometimes think we are invincible, even to controlling things as powerful as a car,” he said. “But sometimes even the simple things you do every day, you never know what can happen.”

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2680002-bobby-phills-family-speaks-on-coping-with-death-of-former-hornets-guard

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Bobby Phills says hi.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2680002-bobby-phills-family-speaks-on-coping-with-death-of-former-hornets-guard

Yes, we all know that people have been killed in high speed car crashes in the past. People have also been killed by crashes where speed wasn't involved, by falling down the stairs, by having a rock come crashing off a hillside and into their vehicle, and on and on. None of it's relevant. 

[Khyber53]

3 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

 

I travel that road daily as well, and there are segments that there isn't road construction but cones are out. No machinery, no trucks and no workers.

 

States pay rent on those cones/barrels daily as well as for putting them out and picking them back up. Road contractors often use that to pad their bottom line by an extra half mile here and there for a week or two longer than necessary. It's a lot of money.

[OneBadCat]

It’s definItaly a stupid decision and action on his part. But I’m willing to consider it as more of thrill seeking at this point than him being s terrible guy. Hopefully he learns from this and learns to respect the roads. If he wants to race, take it to the track.

[Khyber53]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Yes, we all know that people have been killed in high speed car crashes in the past. People have also been killed by crashes where speed wasn't involved, by falling down the stairs, by having a rock come crashing off a hillside and into their vehicle, and on and on. None of it's relevant. 

How could that NOT be relevant? That is as relevant as any example that could be given. Maybe that there were basketball players involved instead of football players?

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

How could that NOT be relevant? That is as relevant as any example that could be given. Maybe that there were basketball players involved instead of football players?

Because anecdotal completely unrelated examples are always irrelevant. Just like the thousands of examples you could find of people being killed in vehicular accidents where speed was not a factor and the person (or people) who died weren't even at fault in the accident. Are those thousands of examples supposed to "prove" that we should all simply never get into a vehicle at all? Or better yet, hop onto YouTube and find the thousands of videos of people driving at high rates of speed on public roads and absolutely nothing bad happening. No ticket, no crash, just fun. That's the problem with using anecdotal one off examples for anything. They're always irrelevant.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yes, we all know that people have been killed in high speed car crashes in the past. People have also been killed by crashes where speed wasn't involved, by falling down the stairs, by having a rock come crashing off a hillside and into their vehicle, and on and on. None of it's relevant. 

No, ALL of it is relevant.

Someone pressing down on an accelerator until they are going twice the legal speed limit doesn't make them special, it certainly doesn't make them smart, it makes them foolish, reckless and a danger to anyone else unfortunate enough to cross their paths. 

Want to see how fast your car can go?

Find a track and pay for the privilege to find out.

Driving isn't a right, and there are few things worse than causing another person's death due to immature behavior. 

Time to grow up.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, NanuqoftheNorth said:

No, ALL of it is relevant.

Someone pressing down on an accelerator until they are going twice the legal speed limit doesn't make them special, it certainly doesn't make them smart, it makes them foolish, reckless and a danger to anyone else unfortunate enough to cross their paths. 

Want to see how fast your car can go?

Find a track and pay for the privilege to find out.

Driving isn't a right, and there are few things worse than causing another person's death due to immature behavior. 

Time to grow up.

 

It's relevant in your mind. It isn't relevant in reality. They were two entirely different scenarios.

[AceBoogie]

My car can’t even go that fast. Good for him. 

[beastson]

2 hours ago, Palmetto said:

Come on man  you haven't even played your first game yet

Good get it out of the way before.